Practical tracks for the people building modern technology.

Taught by engineers from Paystack, Flutterwave, Andela & Microsoft

Taught by engineers from PiggyVest, Cowrywise, Mono & Paystack

Taught by engineers from Interswitch, AWS & Google

Taught by engineers from Flutterwave, Access Bank & Deloitte

For beginners with no coding or testing background who want to start a career in software testing. Students learn how testing fits into building software, write test cases from requirements, run exploratory tests, write bug reports developers can act on, test websites in the browser and APIs in Postman, use an AI assistant carefully for test ideas, and work as the tester in a Scrum-style team. By the end each student has a QA portfolio from testing one web app and its API (test plan, test cases, bug reports, a Postman collection and a test summary report) and is ready to apply for junior or manual QA tester roles, QA internships or freelance testing work.

Taught by PMs from Paystack & Flutterwave who shipped products used by millions

Taught by engineers from Zindi Africa & Notion

Taught by analysts from GTBank, Stanbic IBTC & PwC Nigeria

Taught by designers from Paystack, Cowrywise & Flutterwave

Taught by marketers from Konga, PiggyVest & Interswitch

Taught by HR leaders from Access Bank, MTN Nigeria & Zenith Bank

Taught by EAs from Flutterwave, Andela & leading Lagos startups

For people with no tech background who want to build and ship small, real web apps with AI coding tools. Students learn to describe what they want in a clear written spec, get an AI assistant to build it, read enough HTML, CSS and JavaScript to check and fix what it produces, save their work with Git and GitHub, store data in a free hosted database and put the app online. The capstone grows week by week from the week-2 spec, so by the end each student has a live, multi-user web app built for a realistic small-business user and can take on small paid freelance jobs (landing pages, booking and order forms, simple customer lists) or entry roles as a junior AI-assisted web builder.

Ship iOS & Android apps from one codebase

Design and run production systems on the cloud

Move and model data at scale for analytics & AI

Design and run the networks Africa runs on

Lead teams and ship projects that land

For complete beginners (school leavers, graduates of non-tech degrees and career switchers) who have never written code and want a solid start before choosing a specialty. Students learn how software and the web work, set up a developer laptop, write JavaScript programs, build and style a web page and make it interactive, save and share their work with Git and GitHub, learn to read documentation and use an AI assistant responsibly, and finish by building and deploying a small web app that talks to a public API or stores its own data. At the end they can build, explain and publish a small working web app, have a GitHub profile to show for it, and know whether to continue into the Frontend or Backend course in a later intake.

Build, secure and ship the kind of C#/.NET backends that run banks, insurers and hospitals — and earn a certificate that proves it. C# and .NET power the core systems of banks, insurers, telcos and government platforms across Africa — and the engineers who can build those systems are consistently among the best-paid backend developers on the continent. This course takes you from a fresh SDK install to an engineer who can design a REST API in ASP.NET Core, model a real business domain in object-oriented C#, query and persist data with Entity Framework Core against SQL Server or PostgreSQL, and reason about async code, LINQ translation and service lifetimes the way senior reviewers do. This is a practitioner's course, not a syntax tour. You will build a working claims API for an insurer and an appointments system for a hospital group, secure them with JWT authentication, bcrypt password hashing and role- and resource-level authorization, then prove they work with xUnit unit tests and WebApplicationFactory integration tests before packaging everything into a Docker image with health checks and a CI-shaped workflow. Every lesson ends with a concrete practice task on your own machine, and the scenarios — transfer limits, claim lifecycles, settlement reports in naira — are the ones you will meet in a real job. At the end, a 20-question certification exam spanning the entire course stands between you and your certificate. Score 70% and it is issued automatically — a shareable, verifiable credential that tells employers you can carry a .NET backend from `dotnet new` to a deployed, tested, secured service. Unlimited retakes, no waiting period: when you are ready, it is yours to earn. Technologies: C#, .NET 8, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, SQL Server, LINQ, xUnit, REST APIs

Go from zero programming knowledge to building, securing, testing and deploying real APIs — and earn a certificate that proves it. Behind every transfer on a fintech app, every delivery update from a logistics rider, and every patient record pulled up in a clinic, there is a backend — and backend engineers are among the most consistently hired developers in Nigeria and across Africa. This course takes you from absolute zero to building that invisible half of modern software with Node.js, the runtime powering APIs at startups from Yaba to Nairobi and at global companies alike. You will learn by building real systems, not toy examples: a logistics API that paginates thousands of deliveries, a fintech-style authentication flow with bcrypt and JWTs, a PostgreSQL schema that survives an injection attack, a Jest test suite that catches a money-losing bug before it ships, and a Dockerized deployment with health checks and CI. Every lesson teaches from first principles, then puts working code in your hands, and ends with a practice task you complete on your own machine — because employers hire people who have built things, not people who have watched videos. At the end, a 20-question certification exam covering all five modules stands between you and your certificate. Pass it (70%, unlimited retakes) and your verified Mindgrid Academy certificate is issued automatically — ready for your CV, your LinkedIn, and your next interview. Technologies: Node.js, JavaScript, Express, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, JWT, Jest, Docker

Turn vague business problems into clear requirements, mapped processes, and delivered change — then get certified to prove it. Business analysts are the bridge between people who have a problem and the teams who deliver the solution — and Nigerian banks, fintechs, telcos, logistics firms and consultancies hire them steadily. This beginner-friendly certification course teaches the complete BA cycle by doing it: you follow one running case, FirstCrest Microfinance Bank in Lagos, as its 9-day paper loan approval process is analysed and redesigned into a 2-day digital one, with a second case at an Abuja logistics depot. Along the way you produce the real artifacts of the job: a problem statement and 5 Whys analysis, a stakeholder register and power-interest grid, interview guides, functional and non-functional requirements, a full BRD outline, user stories with Given/When/Then acceptance criteria, MoSCoW prioritisation, as-is and to-be process maps in BPMN, a gap analysis, a UAT checklist, and a change request with impact assessment. The final module is a 20-question certification exam (70% to pass, unlimited retakes); passing issues a shareable certificate. No technical background required — this track is built for career switchers from banking, operations, customer service, teaching and administration, and every module ends with practice work that becomes your first portfolio case study. Technologies: Requirements gathering, Process mapping, Stakeholder analysis, User stories, BPMN basics, Data-informed decisions, Documentation

Get certified to back up your skills — master the conversations, tools and metrics that turn angry customers into loyal ones. A practical, Africa-first certification course in customer service and client relations. Follow real scenarios — a hanging ₦25,000 transfer at a Lagos fintech, a delayed Abuja delivery, a vanished Nairobi data bundle — handled badly and handled well, in verbatim transcripts. Learn the service mindset that drives revenue, communication that works across chat, phone, email and WhatsApp, HEARD-style de-escalation and policy boundaries, professional ticketing, CRMs, SLAs and queue craft, and the metrics language of CSAT, NPS, FRT and AHT with worked numbers. Finish with a 20-question certification exam (70% to pass, unlimited retakes) and earn a shareable Mindgrid Academy certificate. Technologies: Customer communication, Complaint resolution, CRM tools, Live chat & email support, Service metrics, De-escalation

Go from spreadsheets to SQL to dashboards — and get certified as a job-ready junior data analyst. Every business in Lagos, Nairobi, and Accra is drowning in data and starving for people who can turn it into decisions. This course takes you from absolute beginner to job-ready junior analyst along the exact path employers test for: Excel, SQL, and dashboards. You will work with realistic African business data throughout — a Lagos fintech's transactions in naira, an Abuja logistics startup's delivery routes, a Nairobi retailer's sales — so nothing you learn is abstract. You start by thinking like an analyst: framing sharp questions, separating real metrics from vanity numbers, and running the question-to-decision loop on real scenarios. Then you build serious Excel skills (SUMIFS, XLOOKUP, pivot tables, charts), move into SQL from first principles through JOINs, CTEs, CASE WHEN, and window functions, and finish by designing interactive dashboards and presenting insights that non-technical managers actually act on. Every lesson ends with a hands-on practice task, and by module five you will have genuine portfolio pieces. Pass the 20-question certification exam (70%, unlimited retakes) and your certificate is issued automatically — proof, for recruiters and clients, that you can do the work and not just talk about it. Technologies: Excel, SQL, Pivot tables, Data visualization, Dashboards, Data cleaning

Learn to deploy, automate, and keep real systems running — the skills that turn developers into the engineers every tech team depends on. DevOps engineers are among the most in-demand and best-paid people in African tech, because every company that ships software needs someone who can keep it running. This course takes you from the Linux command line to running production systems in the cloud: you will manage servers over SSH, build CI/CD pipelines that ship code safely, containerise applications with Docker, provision infrastructure as code with Terraform-style tooling, and handle a 2am outage like a professional — including the rollback, the postmortem, and the cost review that follows. Everything is taught through realistic scenarios from the market you will actually work in: keeping a Lagos fintech's API alive through a traffic spike, deploying an Abuja logistics startup's app several times a day, and controlling cloud bills that arrive in USD when revenue is in naira. Cloud concepts are taught provider-neutrally — compute instances, object storage, managed databases, IAM — so your skills transfer to whichever major provider your employer uses. By the end you will have the working stack of a junior DevOps or platform engineer, a plan for the portfolio project that gets interviews, and a certificate to back it up. Pass the 20-question certification exam (70%, unlimited retakes) and your certificate is issued automatically — proof to employers, local and remote, that you can do more than write code: you can run it. Technologies: Linux, Bash, Git, CI/CD, Docker, Cloud computing, Terraform, Monitoring

Get certified to back up your skills — plan, run and measure real marketing campaigns for African businesses. Learn digital marketing the way it is actually practised in Lagos, Abuja and Nairobi: define an audience and an offer that converts, build a content and short-video system that grows without burnout, run paid campaigns budgeted in naira and judged by ROAS, get found on search, and market ethically through email and WhatsApp under NDPA-style consent rules. You will follow one recurring case study — Mama Ude's Kitchen, a Lagos food brand growing from zero to structured campaigns — alongside an Abuja fashion retailer and a Nairobi online store, working with real numbers (CPMs, CPCs and budgets in naira), real calendars, real campaign structures and real reports. The course closes with analytics, client reporting and portfolio building, then a 20-question certification exam. Pass at 70% and earn a shareable Mindgrid Academy certificate that backs up your skills. Technologies: Social media marketing, Content strategy, Paid ads, SEO, Email & WhatsApp marketing, Analytics, Copywriting

Go from zero to shipping real React apps — and walk into junior frontend interviews with a deployed project and a certificate to back you up. React powers the interfaces of the companies hiring frontend engineers across Nigeria and Africa — fintechs in Lagos, logistics startups in Abuja, SaaS teams in Nairobi, and remote-first companies hiring across the continent. This course takes you from web fundamentals to shipping production React applications: you start with how the browser, HTML, CSS and modern JavaScript actually work, then build up through components, props, state, effects, data fetching and routing, until you are deploying a real multi-page app with authentication context, custom hooks and validated forms. Every concept is taught through realistic work: a savings-goal tracker for a Lagos fintech, a delivery-tracking dashboard for an Abuja logistics startup. You will handle loading and error states properly, cancel stale API requests, structure a codebase the way professional teams do, and learn the deployment, performance and accessibility habits that separate employable juniors from tutorial-followers. Each lesson ends with a hands-on practice task on your own machine, so by the end you have genuinely built the apps you will talk about in interviews. Finish by passing the 20-question certification exam (70% to pass, unlimited retakes) and your verifiable certificate is issued automatically — proof, alongside your deployed project, that you can build and ship frontend features with React. Technologies: React, JavaScript, JSX, HTML/CSS, React Router, REST APIs, Vite

Get certified to back up your skills — spot hazards, control risks, and respond like a professional. Learn the practical HSE foundation that Nigerian employers in oil and gas, construction and manufacturing expect from day one. Through recurring real-world scenarios — a Port Harcourt fabrication yard, a Lagos high-rise site, an Ogun State factory floor — you will master hazard identification across all six hazard families, the five-step risk assessment with a worked 5×5 matrix, the hierarchy of controls, PPE selection and its limits, housekeeping, manual handling, work at height and permit-to-work awareness, fire safety and evacuation, incident and near-miss reporting with investigation basics, spill response, waste segregation and environmental awareness, plus toolbox talks and the HSE career path in Nigeria. Pass the 20-question certification exam (70%, unlimited retakes) to earn your Mindgrid Academy certificate and share it with employers. Honest by design: this is a Mindgrid Academy certificate, not an accredited NEBOSH, IOSH or OSHA qualification — it teaches the practical foundation employers expect and complements, but never replaces, statutory or accredited certifications. All regulatory references (Factories Act, NESREA) are at awareness level only and are not legal advice. Technologies: Hazard identification, Risk assessment, PPE, Incident reporting, Fire safety, Environmental awareness, Safety culture

Learn to recruit, onboard, manage and pay people the professional way — and earn a certificate that proves you can run HR in any Nigerian workplace. Human Resources is one of the most employable non-technical career paths in Nigeria and across Africa — every growing company needs someone who can hire well, onboard properly, manage performance fairly, stay on the right side of labour obligations, and run payroll without errors. This course teaches you to do all of it from first principles, with no prior HR experience required. You will work through realistic Nigerian scenarios at every step: pricing attrition at a Lagos fintech in naira, building a 90-day onboarding plan for an Abuja logistics startup, drafting disciplinary letters that respect fair hearing, and computing a full Nigerian payslip with pension, NHF and PAYE deductions. You will learn structured recruitment and interviewing, humane performance improvement plans, awareness-level Nigerian labour law and statutory contributions (pension, NSITF, ITF), compensation design, HRIS tools, and the HR metrics — attrition, absenteeism, time-to-fill, eNPS — that get you taken seriously in leadership meetings. Pass the final certification exam (70%, unlimited retakes) and your certificate is issued automatically — proof for employers that you can step into an HR Officer, People Operations, or Talent role and run a fair, professional people function from day one. Technologies: Recruitment, Onboarding, Performance Management, Nigerian Labour Law Awareness, Payroll & Compensation, HRIS Tools, HR Analytics, Employee Relations

Plan, run, and close real projects — get certified to back up your skills. A practical, first-principles project management course built for the African workplace. You will learn the full project lifecycle — initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closing — through three realistic running projects: a Lagos fintech app launch, an Abuja depot relocation with real naira budgets, and a Port Harcourt hospital system rollout. You will build the working artifacts professionals actually use (project charter, work breakdown structure, schedules and budgets, RAID log, communication plan, status reports), learn when to run Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, or a hybrid, and practise the judgement calls that make or break projects: handling vendor slippage, saying no to powerful stakeholders, reporting bad news early, and closing projects properly. The course ends with a 20-question certification exam (70% to pass, unlimited retakes) and a verifiable certificate — your practical foundation before later credentials like PMP, PRINCE2, or Scrum certifications. Technologies: Project planning, Agile & Scrum, Waterfall, Risk management, Stakeholder management, Budgeting, Project tools

Break into tech without writing an app — learn to find the bugs that cost companies millions, automate the boring parts, and get certified to prove it. Quality Assurance is one of the most accessible routes into tech — you do not need a computer science degree or years of coding to start, you need a sharp eye, a disciplined method, and proof that you can do the work. This course takes you from zero to job-ready: you will learn how software fails and why companies pay well to catch it early, how to design tests that find real defects instead of clicking around hopefully, and how to write bug reports and test plans that developers and auditors respect. Then you go beyond manual testing, because the market does. You will test live web applications and payment-style APIs with browser DevTools and Postman, learn just enough JavaScript to be dangerous, and build real automated test suites with Playwright — locators, assertions, page objects, and zero flaky sleeps — before wiring them into a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions and load-testing an endpoint with JMeter the way a professional would before a big launch. Every module is grounded in realistic Nigerian workplace scenarios: fintech transfer flows, logistics tracking APIs, hospital booking portals. Finish the modules, pass the certification exam, and your certificate is issued automatically — with unlimited retakes, so the only variable is your effort. You also leave with something no certificate replaces: a concrete portfolio plan covering automation code, API collections, bug reports, and performance findings that you can put in front of hiring managers in Lagos, Nairobi, or a remote-first team anywhere in the world. Technologies: Manual Testing, Test Design, Jira, Postman, JavaScript, Playwright, Selenium, CI/CD, JMeter

Design digital products people can actually use — from field research in a Lagos market to a tested, handoff-ready app. Learn UI/UX design by doing the whole job on one real project: PayNaira, a savings app for Lagos market traders using low-end Android phones, expensive data, and hard-earned skepticism. You will run user interviews and turn them into evidence-based personas and journey maps; structure the product with information architecture, user flows, and mobile-first wireframes built for African network realities; craft the visual layer with worked type scales, WCAG contrast math, spacing systems, and a token-based design system; then prototype, usability-test with five real users, iterate, and hand off to developers without your design dying in translation. A second project — an Abuja hospital appointment flow — runs through the practice exercises. The course closes with portfolio case-study building, interview preparation, and freelance fundamentals, followed by a 20-question certification exam. Pass at 70% and earn a verifiable certificate. Get certified to back up your skills. Technologies: User research, Wireframing, Prototyping, Visual design, Design systems, Usability testing, Design tools

Build and ship real software with AI assistants — and develop the judgment to know when the machine is wrong. AI assistants can now write most of the code in a working application. What they cannot do is scope a product, verify that generated code is correct, catch the security holes they confidently introduce, or take responsibility for what ships. Those human skills are the difference between a builder who demos and a builder who delivers — and they are exactly what this course trains. You will learn how large language models actually generate code (and why they hallucinate APIs and produce confident nonsense), how to write prompts that get correct code instead of plausible code, how to read, trace and test code you did not write, and how to debug with an AI pair without going in circles. In the flagship project you build and deploy a real market price tracker — the kind of small, genuinely useful app that wins first clients in Lagos, Abuja or Nairobi — using disciplined small steps, Git checkpoints and real user feedback. By the end you can turn a fuzzy business problem into verified, shipped software fast, place any task on a practical verification ladder from throwaway script to fintech-grade code, avoid the secrets, injection and data-privacy traps that sink AI-assisted projects, and speak honestly and credibly about your AI-assisted process to employers and clients. Pass the certification exam and your certificate is issued automatically — proof that you build with AI tools like a professional, not a passenger. Technologies: AI code assistants, Prompt engineering, JavaScript, Git, Debugging, Testing, Software verification, Secure coding

An 8-week programme for the Digital SAT: both Reading and Writing domains, all four Math domains, the adaptive two-module format in the Bluebook app, calculator strategy and two full-length practice tests. Every practice item is written by Mindgrid tutors and test-prep partners — original material, never copied test content.

An 8-week programme for the IELTS Academic test: Listening, Reading, Writing Task 1 and Task 2, and all three Speaking parts, with the vocabulary and grammar that separate Band 6 from Band 7+, weekly timed practice and two full mock tests. Every practice item is written by Mindgrid tutors and test-prep partners — original material, never copied test content.

An 8-week programme for the TOEFL iBT: Reading, Listening, the four Speaking tasks and the two Writing tasks, with dedicated work on the integrated skills (note-taking, paraphrase and summary) that the test is built around, and two full mock tests. Every practice item is written by Mindgrid tutors and test-prep partners — original material, never copied test content.